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Que. conciliator to meet with striking Olymel staff

Apr. 1, 2015 at 7:24 pm CDT

A conciliator with Quebec’s provincial labour ministry is set to meet Friday with striking employees from meat packer Olymel’s Beauce-region hog slaughter plant. The Vallee-Jonction plant’s 940-odd employees represented by CSN (Confederation des syndicats nationaux) walked off the job on March 18. Union and company officials have been in talks […]

Manitoba lifts fertilizing ban early

Apr. 1, 2015 at 11:19 am CDT

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Mosaic bracing for royalty hit from Sask. potash policy

Mar. 30, 2015 at 7:53 pm CDT

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Ont. poultry packer back under hidden-camera spotlight

Mar. 30, 2015 at 7:30 pm CDT

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Railways’ mandatory minimum grain handles ending

Mar. 28, 2015 at 2:33 pm CDT

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Last of avian flu quarantines lifted in B.C.

Mar. 27, 2015 at 5:20 pm CDT

The quarantine has been lifted at the last of the 13 farms in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley known to have been infected with highly-pathogenic avian flu. The farm, a 53,000-bird table egg layer operation at Langley, B.C., was confirmed Dec. 13 with high-path H5N2 avian flu. At the end of […]

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Veterinarian and P.E.I. ag minister Bud Ings, 89

Mar. 27, 2015 at 4:03 pm CDT

Memorial services were held Friday in Montague, P.E.I. for Dr. Bud Ings, a “pioneer” of veterinary medicine who served as the province’s agriculture minister in the 1970s and later supported the development of the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC). Ings, who died last Friday at Montague’s Kings County Memorial Hospital at […]

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SW Ont. pork plant to morph into turkey processor

Mar. 27, 2015 at 12:17 pm CDT

The vacant pork slaughterhouse formerly known as Great Lakes Specialty Meats is now expected to restart as a turkey processing plant by year’s end. Meat processor Sofina Foods bought the 78,000-square foot plant and property at Mitchell, Ont., about 60 km west of Kitchener, for $4.77 million last September, after Great […]

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Alta. cuts ag spending slightly, boosts fuel tax

Mar. 27, 2015 at 4:44 am CDT

Alberta’s bid to stabilize its public-sector revenue and spending will include slight cuts to its farm programs budget, plus an increase in provincial fuel tax from which farmers won’t be exempt. Finance Minister Robin Campbell on Thursday released a 2015-16 budget that pegs expenses for Alberta’s agriculture and rural development […]

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Quebec ag spending trimmed, tax credits boosted

Mar. 26, 2015 at 9:33 pm CDT

Quebec’s farming sector can expect a noticeable cut in program spending and a handful of tax credits and tax relief coming out of Thursday’s provincial budget. Finance Minister Carlos Leitao on Thursday announced a cut of about 15 per cent in program spending for the agriculture, food and fisheries ministry […]

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